Title
Economic externalities in transmission network expansion planning
Date Issued
01 October 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
University of Campinas
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
This paper discusses investing in transmission capacity and its link with investing in generation capacity. Since opportunity costs in transmission and generation capacity are dependent, externalities arise when investment decisions are decentralized. Externalities are market failures which appear when a decision of a particular agent changes another agent's welfare, but not vice versa. When generation and transmission investment decisions are made separately, generation investment introduces negative externalities to transmission planning. A centralized multistage stochastic model is formulated for finding the Pareto optimal solution of investments in transmission and generation capacity. Using the model, we show some examples of externalities in transmission planning for the IEEE 24-bus test system and the Peruvian system. Finally, we found that for the Peruvian system simultaneous optimal planning of generation and transmission capacity gave significant savings, around $585 million, which represents 10% of the total cost.
Start page
109
End page
115
Volume
68
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85033438515
Source
Energy Economics
ISSN of the container
01409883
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported in part by the Brazilian institution CNPq and in part by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain. We also want to thank the reviewers and Mr. John Palmer for their suggestions.
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